We’re particularly pleased and proud to begin Lodestar Library with (we believe) the first hardcover edition since 1892 of Swin, Swale and Swatchway by Henry Lewis Jones. This hard-to-come-by collection of delightful, light-hearted sailing episodes from the Thames Estuary of late Victorian times was an acknowledged inspiration for Maurice Griffiths and, we may surmise, for Francis B. Cooke, and comes complete with the author’s many contemporary photographs. Your Editor can confirm that the Lobster Smack Inn, just behind the sea-wall at Hole Haven, continues to dispense good cheer to the visiting sailor; just don’t leave your dinghy unattended on the slip. We carry ours to the inn with us — it seems the problem of ‘boys’ has survived to this day.
Lodestar Library Volume 1
190 x 135mm, 176pp, 16pp plates, hardcover with laminated jacket
Price £12 plus delivery, which is included below.
[...] Lodestar proprieter Dick Wynne has kindly given me permission to put up a section of Swin, Swale and Swatchway – download it here. The book is of course available at a very reasonable price from the Lodestar Books website. [...]